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Sara Harte

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✍️ Writer with a penchant for pining 🖤🩶🤍💜 Rep: Isabel Lineberry at Perez Literary 💋 '24 SmoochPit Mentee

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Sara Harte @saraharte.bsky.social · Feb 14

The banter of EMILY WILDE'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES x slow burn, high society romance of HALF A SOUL.

😒 Intellectually curious heiress
🤝 Accidental Faustian bargain
😈 Demon longing for a vacay
✨️ Edwardian aesthetics
🤌 Pining™️

#Cupit #A #RF #HR #Q

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Kelton Davis is querying! 🏹⚔️🌠 @keltondavis.bsky.social · Jul 13

GODKILLER X BONE SHARD DAUGHTER

A desperate heir. A disgraced warrior. A deadly assassin.

🏹 Strong FMC
🏹 Rich Worldbuilding
🏹 Hunt for Redemption
🏹 Cyclical Trauma
🏹 Found Family

#BluePit 📖 #A #Q #AmQuerying

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees
Title Card
Text: An Agent's Guide To: The Daughter and the Nameless Son by Kelton Davis | Adult Fantasy | 100k Words | Querying Now!

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees | Six images surrounding a quote (from clockwise): A sunset, a hammer striking hot metal, a red-haired archer, a grizzled old man, red arrow fletching, a red forest.
Text: "You might be too broken to help me yourself," she said, all pretense of courtesy gone, "but if you're a shadow of the man he said you were, you ought to still know something at least.
"Have you ever heard of an assassin who could change their shape?"

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees
Title: Comps
Images: Covers of GODKILLER by Hannah Kaner, THE JUSTICE OF KINGS by Richard Swan, and THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER by Andrew Stewart. Arrows connect similarities between comps.
Text:
From GODKILLER: Cross-Country Quest to Forbidden Land, Surrogate Parenthood (shared with THE JUSTICE OF KINGS)
From BONE SHARD DAUGHTER: Disgraced Heir, Strong FMC (shared with both others)

Background: Mountain monastery surrounded by red trees
Title: Pitch
Text: Niozene has never been good enough.

As daughter and crown heir to the Mother, a living goddess and ruler of her country, perfection is the only standard she’s ever known. Yet, despite her flawless scholar’s education and a polished career as a ranger, Niozene has failed to convince the Mother to look past her greatest flaw—she lacks the holy power to control the minds of others that ordains her family as living gods with divine right to rule.

When a shape-changing assassin nearly kills the Mother on Niozene’s watch, she is stripped of her titles and given an ultimatum: return with the assassin’s head, or face excommunication from both her homeland and the afterlife. Desperate, she accepts the task as a final chance to prove herself and show the Mother she deserves a place as her daughter.

Allowed only the help of Sonsan, a surly tracker and criminal also facing excommunication, Niozene dreads that she may have lost her chance at redemption before she has even left home. But when Sonsan reveals that he shares the same strange shape-changing power as the assassin, Niozene realizes his assignment to accompany her is more than coincidence. As they track the assassin deep into a forbidden land, confronting demons, ancient magic, and the ghosts that haunt their dreams and blood, they must uncover the truth behind their quest—and the buried history neither knew they shared—if they wish to live to see their promised redemption.

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Sara Harte @saraharte.bsky.social · Jul 13

When Edwardian heiress Celia accidentally makes a deal with a charming demon, she must break the contract before his presence threatens her advantageous betrothal—and her heart.

DAMNED AND DIVINE is a 102k adult historical romance with grounded fantasy elements

#bluepit #bluepit 📖 #A #R #F #PN #Q

3 x 3 photo grid with hands touching, head of a blond man, couple facing each other in period clothing, a woman sitting in period clothing with teacups, painting of couple dancing, restored photo of Edwardian ladies, backs of ladies at a ball, scissor beside lavender, woman wading in the sea

Photo of a man taking a woman's hand with text that reads: This - the cautious warmth in his eyes, the heat of his touch, the dizzying proximity of him - was too much. She gripped onto her resolve even as she struggled to pull away from his caress. "I told you not to tease me." "I'm the furthest thing from teasing, Cecelia Romano," he replied. "I'm being painfully, foolishly setious."

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jenn (is querying and writing) @kotegentarri.bsky.social · Jul 13

an #agentsguide to #Thoroughfare ♡
.°˖⋆ ℧ 𓃗 .°˖⋆

A western gothic horror in which a sunshine Apostle must work with a grumpy outlaw to save the western towns from an eldritch horror spreading a virus of death.

♡ This is a novella! 26,500 words ♡
#BluePit 📖 #A #H #SP #Q #DIS #amquerying

"Western-themed image titled 'An Agent’s Guide to Thoroughfare' features a cowboy on horseback under a starry night sky, flanked by illustrated revolvers."

The pitch section with a background picture, aesthetic, and short pitch.
Text: An Apostle shunned away in a Creedance amongst mountains and snow is summoned to assist an outlaw hiding amongst the desert plains..."
A mysterious night scene with a glowing moon above a cowboy on horseback. A church is depicted alongside, with ominous red streaks. Text overlays describe a tale of an apostle aiding an outlaw against a monstrous threat. The mood is tense and atmospheric.

A dialogue scene/snippet shows two people. Theodora, a woman with an intense expression, questions life after death. The Apostle, a blonde man, suggests life’s meaning lies in present love, not afterlife, adding a tone of reflection and calm.

Alt text: A graphic with "COMPS, THEMES, TROPE" in bold.
Left shows covers of "Tombstone," "What Moves the Dead," "Red Dead Redemption II," and "The Brothers Karamazov."
Center features vintage and Western images as an aesthetic moodboard.
Right lists themes like "Female rage" and tropes "Grumpy x Sunshine."
Background shows a moody, dark setting with a church.

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DH Strange @dhstrange.bsky.social · Jul 13

HOT FUZZ x FIFTH ELEMENT w Eleanor Shellstrop (GOOD PLACE)

💖 disaster bi MC
👽 hot alien LI
🔗 forced proximity
🛏️ there’s only one (sofa) bed
🕺 disco-dancing assassins
🚀 space shenanigans
👑 secret royalty?
🎉 saving the galaxy, probably

#Q #A #SF #R #BluePit 📖 #LGBT

9 images total. Top row: image of planet Jupiter, image of alleyway with neon lighting, image of a person running at night against the back drop of a large white wall. Second row: image of a couple lying on the ground, their heads are touching and they’re both curled in the fetal position in purple lighting, image of two hands clasped against a background of blinds, image of a busy dance club with neon purple lighting. Bottom row: image of a couple walking down a wet alley with hanging lights at night, image of a M/F couple kissing, image of the Milky Way against a mountainous terrain.

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fabs is editing 🫣✨ @simplyfabs.bsky.social · Jul 13

#bluepit 📖 #NA #A #POC #R #DR #W

TITLE: the villain's muse.
COMPS: god of fury x king of sloth x perfect addiction
GENRE: bipoc dark romance!
WORD COUNT: est. around 90k+ after dev edits!

She healed. He destructed.

- the fmc is bangladeshi, the mmc is puerto rican!
- the fmc is writing/bookish content creator + freelance editor, the mmc is a dj and illegal underground boxer!

these are the main tropes of the book *not* including the numerous microtropes that would've made this list TOO LONG otherwise !!

the comps of the book !!! i added silly little captions for just the vibes and with the current direction of the book as it undergoes heavy developmental edits and revisions—they honestly make the most sense !!! it felt right to have ONE movie comp here because i wanted to, hehe <33

spoiler alert: i came up with the dedication on the spot and it'll be a working dedication for now *unless* i'm not changing it! enjoy being delulu and kicking your feet besties <33

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Rissa Allen (is querying) @honeyscribbles.bsky.social · Jul 13

NOTHING MORE TO TELL X AGGGTM

Lennie doesn’t know what happened the night her ex-bff went missing but she does know one thing: it’s always the boyfriend.

#BluePit #Q #YA #M #agentguide

An agents guide to catch you in the trees yay thriller romance approximately 90k words

It’s always the boyfriend… right? Lennie Torres’s senior year captaining the XC team turns deadly when her ex bff goes missing and she ends up a suspect. Her only way out? Team up with nemesis golden boy Lysander Hayes, the boyfriend of the missing girl and the last person to see her alive. But Lysander not the only one keeping secrets and if both Lennie and Lysander want to make it through xc season, they’re going to have to figure out how to trust each other or someone’s going to end up dead.

Comp titles: nothing more to tell, no place left to hide, they’ll never catch us
Unconventional comps: the marauders era cruel summer 2022 pretty little liars 2010
Tropes/vibes: rivals to lovers, running culture, private school, chaotic academia, dual timeline, dual pov, ride or die friendships

Hayes takes my hand, wrapping his fingers firmly around mines “Deal.” His eyes glint an odd silver in the chrome and linoleum hallway and I think of people making deals with devils at crossroads. I wonder if they get the same storm of nerves I have swirling in my blood right now.
I don’t trust Hayes.
But I need him.
“Deal.”

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B. van Bodegom 📃is querying & writing @bvbodegom.bsky.social · Jul 13

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × KNIVES OUT

When their detective friend is murdered during their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—and puns—to solve the crime before they're all killed off like NPCs in a badly written campaign.

#BluePit 📖 #A #H #M #Q

The image shows a horror-comedy novel cover titled "DAD BODIES." The top of the cover reads "THE GAME JUST TOOK A DAD TURN" with "DAD" in a different color.

The background features a haunted house with multiple towers and illuminated windows against a dark backdrop. At the center is a 20-sided die (D20) used in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, with visible numbers including 1, 7, 13, and 19. The die is surrounded by red blood splatter effects.

At the bottom of the cover are six men with expressions of terror and shock. One man is wearing a white shirt over his head. These men are the dads referenced in the title.

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · Jul 13

Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built

Long after collapse, an empath leads a quest across the former US to retrieve a key to peace.
Her mission becomes about more than saving her people; it offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change.
#BluePit 📖 #SP #Q #CliFi

a hand drawn map of a route across a sea-risen US, superimposed over a background of hopeful leaves sprouting from trees in an sunset sky over the Earth

elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk

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Sara Harte @saraharte.bsky.social · Jul 13

DAMNED AND DIVINE:

❤️ High society stakes and slow-burn romance of HALF A SOUL

✨️ Banter and Howl-coded love interest of EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES

🤝 Questionable bargains with (alluring) eldritch beings of INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LARUE

#bluepit #bluepit 📖 #A #R #F #PN #Q

Image board in 3 x 3 grid. Images include couple in water, an old fashion manor, a woman reading a book in historical clothing, woman sitting at a vanity, desk full of books, flowers in the palm of a hand, woman's hand being set in a man's, and the back of a blonde haired man. Text in the center square says "Oh, Eligos, when has this not been a dangerous game?"

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Sara Harte @saraharte.bsky.social · Mar 12

This is such a mood, seriously. It's like having to talk down a toddler but the toddler is also me.

Sara Harte @saraharte.bsky.social · Feb 24

The current mood for real. #amquerying

"Is this a pigeon?" meme but with the man labeled "me" asking "is this a healthy hobby?" about a label that says "stalking querytracker timelines"

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Sara Harte @saraharte.bsky.social · Feb 15

I'm really hoping it will be! 🤞😌

Sara Harte @saraharte.bsky.social · Feb 15

Edwardian aesthetics deserve more opportunity to shine - and when is pining NOT in style?

Sara Harte @saraharte.bsky.social · Feb 15

I love that all your mood boards and images and stuff have had just a *hint* of camp (the little cartoon ghosts!!) and it is ALWAYS so charming! 💜

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Maisie Bannion 🩷 querying @maisiebannion.bsky.social · Feb 15

IN NIGHTFALL x SPELLS FOR LOST THINGS x BUFFY

When a vampire and a teen witch kill a high-ranking vamp in self defense, they team up to hide the murder from the slain foe’s vengeful clan—and bonding over the deadly secret just might kindle their offbeat romance.

#Cupit #YA #PR

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Jocelyne Gregory @jocelynegregory.bsky.social · Feb 14

Vikings x Derry Girls = Viking, Nun, Murder, Chicken.

A chance encounter between a Viking and a fake nun leads to murder, mystery, and romance.
#Cupit #A #HR

A collage of Viking and medieval themed images including a goblet, warriors, and nuns, French lavender, a castle and Nunnery a random chicken and a very cold you woman wrapped in a grey blanket.

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J. Sydney Morris ✨is querying ✨ @jsydneymorris.bsky.social · Feb 14

Moira pines for freedom and adventure, and when fate requires her to take over her family merchant business, she finally gets her chance. She is soon swept up in a revolution fighting the patriarchy, and in romances that may not be right for her...
#CuPit #FaRo #FBW

Amina al-Sirafi x Mortal Follies

mood board for #BEDUÄFAN - a new romantic fantasy by j sydney morris
photos include dark imagery of victorian era men and women drinking, dancing around fires, sailboats in secluded coves, candlelit trysts, taverns and pirate women

She wished she could bottle the moment and return to it in the years to come. But no such power existed - or if it did, the gods didn't share it with her.
The night passed between them. None came to relieve them of their watch. Perhaps again, this was the hand the gods. Or perhaps their companions were simply tired.
An easy silence fell, sparked only by the cracking of a log, the hiss of the fire. Alwyn never let go of her hand.

"Moira, I'm not laughing at you," Alwyn said, suddenly very serious. "I'm laughing, sardonically, at the fact that our society has the power to make one of the most capable persons I've ever met in my life, feel so low."
She looked out over the sea. "What will Lord John ask of me?"
Alwyn crossed his arms beneath his cloak. "My guess? He will ask you to privateer for him. Run cargo around the blockades, perhaps fire upon a few Beduäfanish ships who chose to not toe the line."
"A privateer? As with a genuine letter of marque?"
"I would hope so - otherwise you would just be a pirate." He looked her over, arms still crossed. "You don't have to do it.
But I would say it's a damn sight better than sulking here in Sildha, or retreating to the confines of Frayne."

"What are you thinking about in there? You always hide away when you begin thinking hard, and your shell is impossible to crack." He dipped her low and brought her back up, spinning her in a circle as he did so. She wasn't familiar with this dance, but he led with an expertise that could only be mastered from years at court.
"I - I'm coming to terms with the fact that I don't know where I stand in the world anymore. And that I have to rely on others, I can't do it alone." He cocked his head to the side as they continued to spin around the floor, the band beginning to pick up pace. "I'm surprised you admitted that, particularly to me."
She shrugged and leaned into his frame, bringing her cheek to his shoulder, her hand wrapped around the back of him. The soft curl of his hair fell around the collar of his tine shirt, shining in the candlelight.
They danced in silence for the rest of tune, and as they waltzed their final steps, Alwyn whispered to her "Wherever our paths may lead after this small adventure, I shall forever be glad we met, Moira." He gave her a small bow and kissed her hand, walking her over to Zekiriel. "I shall fetch us all some refreshments."

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Claire Kidwell @kiddyjoy.bsky.social · Feb 14

UPROOTED x STUDIO GHIBLI

Cheating a suitor out of his money to help her family was easy. Falling in love with the night sky trapped in a mortal body is harder. And helping them return to the sky at the expense of her heart might just be impossible.

#Cupit #A #CFR #RoFa #LGBT #FBW

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Bookishbabeiswriting @bookbabewriting.bsky.social · Feb 14

Jennifer's Body x Together We Rot
It's going to be a killer summer.
😍 Sapphic Pining
❤️ Friends to Lovers
👀 Cannibalism as metaphor for love
💖 Monstrous romance
🎀 Bubblegum horror vibes
🌽 Cult town in Canadian Prairies
🎡 Ferris wheel confessions
💋 Querying after SmoochPit
#Cupit #YA #HOR #INR #LGBT

creepy hazy moodboard with pinkish red overtones. Old town bar with neon sign, Ferris wheel at night, silhouette of woman in front of red stain glass window, shadow of two people embracingbed with white curtains around it, cowboy hat, old church with red sunset, girl with match between teeth, a spilt BFF necklace, a heart, and a sign that says Yes I do bite. Flames line the edges.

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mar is querying ☁️🏜️ @margreyfield.bsky.social · Feb 14

EMBER IN THE ASHES x 4TH WING
After banishing shadow-wielders, the forbidden romance between the crown princess' fiance and a shadow-wielder might be powerful enough to bring down an empire. But first, they'll have to survive the fighting tournament they're partners in. And each other.
#CuPit #RF #Q

hands descending from sunlight
a sunrise over a desert
ornate ceiling paintings
a golden crown
"He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it."
a man falling through the crowds
a barely illuminated masculine face
a white cloaked figure
hands descending from sunlight
a sunrise over a desert
ornate ceiling paintings
a golden crown
"He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it."
a man falling through the crowds
a barely illuminated masculine face
a white cloaked figure

A misty forest
a black cloaked figure
a woman reaching toward light in the darkness
smoke pouring from a woman's mouth
shadowed hands reaching for an illuminated orb
a book of glyphs
twin flames burning
"I am the monster you created"

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Ilana Kelley @ilanakelleyauthor.bsky.social · Feb 12

THE BARGAINER x SIX OF CROWS x THE LOST APOTHECARY

A Reader’s & #LitAgents Guide for NIGHT BIRD, an adult romantic fantasy ft:
🕰️dual timeline
✴️invisibility & intangibility magic
🔪FMC vigilante for wronged women
💞friend or foe?
☠️poison & female rage
🫂found family

#QuestPit #Q #RF #F #A #AgentGuide

A Guide to Night Bird
An adult romantic fantasy novel

The Pitch
Ava can become invisible and walk through walls but can’t escape her warded cage. Destined to follow in her dead mother’s footsteps as a courtesan and spy, she’s trained to get close to—and betray—those in the highest levels of society. But alone at night in her room, she listens to the steam engine’s whistle, plays her cello to the night birds, and dreams of escaping her prison. Until one stormy evening, a boy, Zev, breaks through her window and gives her a taste of life beyond the bars.
Their chance meeting spawns two years of secret friendship until her eighteenth birthday, when her seduction training will begin. Instead, she wakes up to a grisly scene—a bloody trail, dead guardians, and broken wards. Given what she knows of Zev’s powerful abilities, she assumes her freedom came at his hand. She waits for his return, which never comes.
Eight years later, Ava has reinvented herself as Night Bird, a vigilante for wronged women. She’s assisted by a group of former street kids who’ve matured into a misfit gang. A botched mission finds them in the crosshairs of a shadowy man known as a high-powered fixer. That man turns out to be the boy who’d disappeared years earlier. It’s unclear if he’s friend or foe. However, when she takes on her biggest target—the last man to see her mother alive—Zev may be the only person keeping her from going up in flames.

For Fans of:
Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa—dual timeline & lost love
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner—female rage & poison
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo—found family & misfit crew

Chapter One
Only the night birds provided company in my caged existence. They sang for me after the sun dipped, gliding beyond my window’s metal bars as their trilling tunes wove through the moon’s light. They were my link to the outside world, a fragile tether to life beyond my warded room. My self-given name—Ava—was an homage to them, the beautiful creatures that kept me sane.
During the day, when I was granted time away from lessons, the noise and bustle of the street scared them beneath the eaves, into the holes and crannies of buildings. I’d sit, fists clenched, ears straining for their hopeful notes. But I was alone. The lectas didn’t count. They were caretakers, not company.
When streetlamps glowed in the satiny darkness, the night birds’ warbles piercing the quiet, I’d pull out my cello. My bow swept the strings like a feathered wing, and the resonant chords danced with the birdsong. They’d swoop and dive, triumphant in their freedom—something I’d never known and never would.

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Luna is querying 💫 @lunacwriting.bsky.social · Feb 14

THIS IS REAL, ISABEL BENES ready for #Cupit 💘! (+Big 5 editor interest!)
✨ Two gifted kids, now adults, falling apart… and in love?
🏠 Forced proximity
🔥 Rivals to lovers & slowburn
🌞 Small-town charm & summer vibes
🌸 OwnVoices Latinx rep, anxiety, vitiligo, & celiac disease
#CR #MCR #MHR #A

A graphic for my manuscript featuring original artwork of the protagonists—a young woman and man gazing at each other with a vibrant blue bus in the background. Comp titles are organized by themes at the bottom of the graphic: Writers’ Romance, Small Town & Summer Vibes, Rivals to Lovers?, Slow Burn, and Anxiety Rep.

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